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Re: Re: Re: Thank you again, Mikochan!

Thanks Mikochan. I'll write more about Danish culture. I'm not really multi-lingual; just interested in languages that's all. With your interest in Brazil and the Amazon I can well understand why you would like to polish up your Portuguese.

posted by elinjo on November 30, 2009 at 12:45 AM | link to this | reply

Re: Re: Thank you again, Mikochan!

Elinjo,

Thank you for your reply! I was busy and away for a while from this blog because of my work and wedding ceremony of my younger brother!!

 I read you left me a long comment and finally read it today! Thank you. I am very very impresed by your multi-lingual talent. I was surprised to hear that Esperanto is much easier than English?!

I still love English. It is difficult, so it is challenging. I enjoy the process of leaning languages. I want to brush up my Portuguese by leaning basic grammers more some day.

I was communicating with Indios in Amazon by my broken Portuguese. It was so much fun!!

posted by mikochan on November 30, 2009 at 12:21 AM | link to this | reply

Re: Thank you again, Mikochan!

So far I have not advanced to Japanese. Apart from English I speak fluent Danish and Esperanto. I studied French for many years, but read it much better than I can speak it. As I lived in Italy for a year I once upon a time spoke Italian. In addition I also studied Serbo-Croat for two years. However I've not done anything to keep these two languages up, so I'm afraid they've disappeared or at least totally dormant.

There are quite a few Japanese esperantists. There's always a big contingent of them at the annual Esperanto World Congress. They learn Esperanto, because they find it much easier than learning English. http://www.jei.or.jp/

Thanks for keeping in touch. Good luck!

posted by elinjo on November 18, 2009 at 12:05 AM | link to this | reply

Thanks and I will check out the site - just bought Roseta Stone's French course

posted by janey_ on November 17, 2009 at 9:43 PM | link to this | reply

Thank you again, Elinjo!

Thank you for encourging me and inspiring me! I am amazed to know the language program and the number of attendees there! I am a professional interpreter and I love this job! Because each time I find something new. Japanese is not included to your interest yet? I might not try this language if I had been born outside of Japan though because it requires streneous study...that is why I have a sense of awe to meet foreigners who speak Japanese fluently. I am still on the way mastering English, the very attractive language.

posted by mikochan on November 17, 2009 at 7:17 PM | link to this | reply

Amazing what technology is doing...I could see myself at some point trying to learn another language.

posted by FormerStudentIntern on November 17, 2009 at 7:09 PM | link to this | reply

it would be great to "relearn" French after all these years since 5 yrs of

it in school....and teaching English would be enjoyable (according to my daughter...:).....

posted by Rumor on November 17, 2009 at 4:00 PM | link to this | reply

Re: Elyse

Good for you! Yes, it's very expensive here, if you want to go to language classes.

posted by elinjo on November 17, 2009 at 12:18 PM | link to this | reply

Re: Taps

That's fantastic Taps! I'm so pleased you're enjoying it.

posted by elinjo on November 17, 2009 at 12:17 PM | link to this | reply

I don't want to confuse you folks, but I've just found a similar site, which you might like to visit too; here it is http://www.linguanaut.com/index.htm 

Good for you Taps for taking the plunge.

It's amazing how many idealistic people there are out there, just waiting to donate their skills for nothing.

posted by elinjo on November 17, 2009 at 12:16 PM | link to this | reply

I started my first learning experience at the Czech site.  I was amazed at how familiar I was with the first easy lesson just from things I remember my mothers and my aunties saying.  This is going to be fun.  And, I'm going to invite my sisters to join me. 

posted by TAPS. on November 17, 2009 at 12:11 PM | link to this | reply

I just signed up to learn Czech, my mothers native language.  I know just a few words of it already.  Thank you for the link.

posted by TAPS. on November 17, 2009 at 9:34 AM | link to this | reply

Elinjo ~ thank you so much for this link --- I have been wanting to learn more german --- and italian as well so, this may very well help - considering the costs of some of the courses.  ~ Elyse

posted by elysianfields on November 17, 2009 at 9:28 AM | link to this | reply

A very interesting site.  It seems that every now and then in my long life, I have fallen into a periodic need for knowing and using Spanish.  But, during long periods in between when I don't keep using it, I forget so much of it and have to study up on it again.  The biggest trouble I have always had is listening to hispanic people speak it.  They go so fast, I can only pick up a word here and there and just get the gist of what they are saying.

posted by TAPS. on November 17, 2009 at 9:27 AM | link to this | reply

Very interesting tip

hi elinjo, This was such an interesting tip, and I'm almost on my way in there right now to see what it has to offer. I think it's always interesting to learn new languages or get better on the languages you already know. So maybe i should give it a try and see if I could learn something new. ;)

After all, I guess we live to learn. ;)

have a wonderful day. :)

posted by kasperhoe on November 17, 2009 at 8:59 AM | link to this | reply

What a great site! I bookmarked it! I think after I get my computer mess cleaned up I would like to give it a shot! I think I am more interested in the teaching than the receiving! Shelly

posted by sam444 on November 17, 2009 at 8:45 AM | link to this | reply

Re: hackthorne 19 Japanese

They say they intend (later on) to recruit language teachers on the site, so it could make financial sense too.

posted by elinjo on November 17, 2009 at 6:42 AM | link to this | reply

Re: nautikos

If you get une amie Quebecoise ou Parisienne on-line who could possibly raise their eyebrows? They have chat-groups on this particular site.

posted by elinjo on November 17, 2009 at 6:40 AM | link to this | reply

Re: Shobana

I hope you are enjoying your holiday. Glad to hear you would like to make time for learning Esperanto and Hindi. Time is the operative word for everybody though.

posted by elinjo on November 17, 2009 at 6:35 AM | link to this | reply

Elinjo

I took a lot of Latin in High School (yep, they sent me to one of those, lol) which to this day I find extremely useful, because it makes access to many other languages relatively easy. Unfortunately my French which, as a Canadian, I should master, is overgrown with weeds. I guess I would need une amie Quebecoise, but my LSW and several other people would object...

I can even speak some German, and I do have a tape with Italian, that I used to stick into my car's tape deck and actually learned stuff from, enough to order gelato and more - did you know that Toronto is the fourth (or is it fifth) largest Italian city? Unfortunately, my current car no longer has a tape deck, only a disc player - and they call that progress?

Now, if I could order my panini in Esperanto, I might consider learning it - but fat chance...

posted by Nautikos on November 17, 2009 at 5:50 AM | link to this | reply

I believe I'm finally gaining fluency in English.

Once studied French and could read and understand it, but since there are no French speakers in this neck of the woods, so most of it evaporated into the empty reaches of memory. Spanish would have been more useful, since there are so many more Hispanics in this country than when I grew up. It would be good to be bilingual.

posted by Pat_B on November 17, 2009 at 4:30 AM | link to this | reply

Hi Betty, I would love to learn Esperanto someday and also Hindi, thank you for the link and hope you are doing fine.

posted by shobana on November 17, 2009 at 4:06 AM | link to this | reply

Japanese

Living in Japan, I was forced to learn to survive. Japanese grammar is basically the reverse of English grammar. For example; In English, you would say, "I went to the store." In Japanese, it's "To the store I went." Chinese, on the other hand, has the same grammatical structures as English - just the words and writing one has to master. Japanese and Korean grammatical structures are very much alike, which is probably why Korean people pick up Japanese relatively quickly and vice versa. Thanks Betty, I'll check out that site.

posted by Hackthorne19 on November 17, 2009 at 12:49 AM | link to this | reply

lustorlove and Kabu

You are no more hopeless than me, I'm sure. Have a nice day, or sleep tight!

posted by elinjo on November 16, 2009 at 9:47 PM | link to this | reply

just learning English is all I can handle

posted by Lanetay on November 16, 2009 at 9:22 PM | link to this | reply

I am just hopeless with languages. I tried so hard tolearn some Greek

well I understand a little but no I am hopeless.

posted by Kabu on November 16, 2009 at 9:09 PM | link to this | reply